This Chanson Schwärmerei - Lovesong to Anoushka Shankar - was inspired by a magnificent concert in Hamburg, performed by the Indian musician Anoushka Shankar and her band. Unlike her better-known half-sister Norah Jones she largely sticks to the traditional Indian raga music handed down to her by her late father Ravi Shankar, who also inspired the Beatles in their Indian period.
For me, at any rate, this concern was a revelation. So strong that I burst into tears and convulsions. But rather than to try my hands on Indian music as a reverence, I wrote a piece in my own style, trying to recollect my sentiments in being confronted by this godly and at the same time utterly strange musical experience.
And as a counterpart to the Classical Indian music, for the text I turned to the classics of German literature - FAUST by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Who describes what I felt, a deep wish and seduction to be young again and be near to this goddess, so the devil help me.
But in the end, reason wins over: ...
Und ich weiß ja, dass es dumm wär, zu sag‘n 'verweile doch so schön'. Und so möcht ich dich nur bitten, beeil dich nicht zu gehn. (And I know that it would be stupid to say 'Please stay with me as beautiful as at this moment - because I had promised the devil he could take me if I were to say just that'. So I just want to ask you, not to go away in a hurry).

Jürgen Broschart, December 2021

This Chanson Schwärmerei - Lovesong to Anoushka Shankar - was inspired by a magnificent concert in Hamburg, performed by the Indian musician Anoushka Shankar and her band. Unlike her better-known half-sister Norah Jones she largely sticks to the traditional Indian raga music handed down to her by her late father Ravi Shankar, who also inspired the Beatles in their Indian period.
For me, at any rate, this concern was a revelation. So strong that I burst into tears and convulsions. But rather than to try my hands on Indian music as a reverence, I wrote a piece in my own style, trying to recollect my sentiments in being confronted by this godly and at the same time utterly strange musical experience.
And as a counterpart to the Classical Indian music, for the text I turned to the classics of German literature - FAUST by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Who describes what I felt, a deep wish and seduction to be young again and be near to this goddess, so the devil help me.
But in the end, reason wins over: ...
Und ich weiß ja, dass es dumm wär, zu sag‘n 'verweile doch so schön'. Und so möcht ich dich nur bitten, beeil dich nicht zu gehn. (And I know that it would be stupid to say 'Please stay with me as beautiful as at this moment - because I had promised the devil he could take me if I were to say just that'. So I just want to ask you, not to go away in a hurry).

Jürgen Broschart, December 2021

Piano reduction

This chanson Für das Unbekannte (For the unknown) was created in September 2021.

* a southern German folk dance with a quick tempo and changing beat pattern

What if you no longer love your partner but they still love you?
This chanson Du liebst mich (You love me) from 2014 was released in 2015 on the CD Eigenlieder - Blau auf Grau.

“I wrote this lullaby for my granddaughter Romina. But in this form as a four-part canon, the piece goes beyond the usual - it's hard to imagine that seven people gather around a cot and sing to the baby, in different languages at that. Non ti toc-chi il Corona, you only want to be loved. Global.”

This canon was created in September 2021.

This chanson New Song was created in April 2021.